Ian Darke repeatedly saying Spurs are failing by not winning away to Barca because they've rested a few players...
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And getting every black player in our team mixed up over the course of the tournament
Did we qualify? here's the Guardian's take away ....
Poor Walker-Peters. It was horrible to see how he disintegrated for the early goal; how he took a heavy touch just inside the Barcelona half, after a Spurs free-kick had been cleared and the ball headed back to him by Moussa Sissoko; how he was robbed by Dembélé and then brutally exposed by the forward’s searing pace.
The covering Harry Winks, who made a couple of first-half errors, threw himself into an all-or-nothing block only for Dembélé to step inside him and shoot low past Hugo Lloris. It was a finish of consummate class by a player who had been in the headlines for the wrong reasons after he reported two hours late for training on Sunday.
When Dembélé faced up Walker-Peters on halfway, the pitch suddenly looked like a big and scary place for the youngster. The France forward’s running style is so smooth that he appears to float over the turf. Walker-Peters, by contrast, was tied in knots. He would be booked shortly afterwards for a pull on Miranda. His chin was on the floor.
Spurs stabilised towards the midway point of the first half and they started to make promising inroads up the inside-left channel, although they struggled for their usual intensity before the interval.
It was one of those weird occasions when the result of a game in another country came to cast an increasingly lengthy shadow. While PSV led, the result here was rendered meaningless. For long spells, the atmosphere was rather flat, despite the efforts of the travelling fans to drive their team.
Well that seems fair and balanced ...... as for Liverpool ....
Perhaps it would be stretching the truth a little to say this victory for Liverpool be remembered among on the list of great European nights here. That, however, is only because the list is already so extensive and the jubilation at the final whistle told its own story. Liverpool had made it through and can be greatly encouraged by the way they handled a potentially treacherous night.
Utter, utter cunts ......
Poor Walker-Peters. It was horrible to see how he disintegrated for the early goal; how he took a heavy touch just inside the Barcelona half, after a Spurs free-kick had been cleared and the ball headed back to him by Moussa Sissoko; how he was robbed by Dembélé and then brutally exposed by the forward’s searing pace.
The covering Harry Winks, who made a couple of first-half errors, threw himself into an all-or-nothing block only for Dembélé to step inside him and shoot low past Hugo Lloris. It was a finish of consummate class by a player who had been in the headlines for the wrong reasons after he reported two hours late for training on Sunday.
When Dembélé faced up Walker-Peters on halfway, the pitch suddenly looked like a big and scary place for the youngster. The France forward’s running style is so smooth that he appears to float over the turf. Walker-Peters, by contrast, was tied in knots. He would be booked shortly afterwards for a pull on Miranda. His chin was on the floor.
Spurs stabilised towards the midway point of the first half and they started to make promising inroads up the inside-left channel, although they struggled for their usual intensity before the interval.
It was one of those weird occasions when the result of a game in another country came to cast an increasingly lengthy shadow. While PSV led, the result here was rendered meaningless. For long spells, the atmosphere was rather flat, despite the efforts of the travelling fans to drive their team.
Well that seems fair and balanced ...... as for Liverpool ....
Perhaps it would be stretching the truth a little to say this victory for Liverpool be remembered among on the list of great European nights here. That, however, is only because the list is already so extensive and the jubilation at the final whistle told its own story. Liverpool had made it through and can be greatly encouraged by the way they handled a potentially treacherous night.
Utter, utter cunts ......
He's a proper Woolwich shit cunt, that one.
Even Robbie Savage felt obliged to defend our performance, so anti Spurs was Darke's usual content free, banal and repeatedly incorrect commentary.
The cunt.
Re-watched the last 20 mins, and Savage deserves some acknowledgement for simply saying ‘got to say...Spurs have been brilliant’.
I don’t like the guy, but in a thread like this, comments like that should be highlighted.
I hate the guy, but a few times in the match he was pretty complimentary of our performance. I thought the gasms he was having in the build up to where Kane put Rose through were quite funny.
Nope. I've hated him ever since he pretended to be punched in the face to get Justin Edinburgh sent off in the League Cup Final in 1999
How did the Spanish pub go
Yeah, really good. The Barca fans were happy with the result and were pleased for us to go through too. I wore my Spurs shirt and I think they thought I was a curiosity. I may have been the first Spurs fan they'd ever met. Especially one with an Andaluz accent. Good night all round. Thanks for asking
Barcelona offer £85m plus Messi for Sissoko
Spurs performance has confirmed that Kane, Dele, Eriksen, Lamela, Rose, Moura, Vertonghen & Alderweireld will also all be leaving for bigger clubs while Pochettino has already signed a precontract with Manchester United
www.bbcsport/probablygoingtohsppen.co.uk
Spurs performance has confirmed that Kane, Dele, Eriksen, Lamela, Rose, Moura, Vertonghen & Alderweireld will also all be leaving for bigger clubs while Pochettino has already signed a precontract with Manchester United
www.bbcsport/probablygoingtohsppen.co.uk
Hosted by the banal and talentless Kelly Cates. Formerly known as Kelly Dalgleish.
Wonder how she got the job, working for the very Liverpool centric BBC.
Oh so now Kane and Dele have signed extensions they are not superstarish enough to be going to Real Madrid anymore...
Dunno how to post a pic of the i sport headlines sorry but apparently we 'snuck in' (we did I guess but after our start it was gonna be that). The annoying part of the headline was that the dippers apparently 'sailed through'! #knobs
Guillaum Ballague thinks we need an Mbappe signing?!
Ffs.
We CREATE superstars, we don't just buy them right off the shelf.
What a load of shite!
The BBC sport Website has 3 separate articles on Liverpool after their qualification.
Basically, Spurs going to get shafted, now 1-0 down against the reserves, look now Busquets and Messi coming on, no chance now.
1-1, Spurs go through. Barca couldn’t be arsed and it was the reserves again (don’t worry that Messi came on anymore)
Some views in the media and oppo fans.
That’s fine.
However also sums up some of our online fans views.
1-1, Spurs go through. Barca couldn’t be arsed and it was the reserves again (don’t worry that Messi came on anymore)
Some views in the media and oppo fans.
That’s fine.
However also sums up some of our online fans views.
Rarely read this thread, but thought I'd take a look a the last couple of pages. Can't believe how personally people take this kind of stuff. Who cares what these people think or say? Most of our media these days is outdated and becoming an irrelevance anyway. Look how the papers look to influence the politics in this country, and then look at the result of the last general election to see how what the situation they thought they could engineer didn't happen at all, with large sections of the public ignoring their bullshit. They don't matter anymore
